[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 7805] Combining characters don't display right in Mono variants

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------- Additional Comments From moyogo at gmail.com  2006-08-08 03:17 -------
This is considered a font shaper bug.

The main reason is that monowidth fonts should have all characters with the same
width. That means even zero-width characters have the standard font's width. I
know it doesn't make much sense, but that's what the specifications say.

Some font shapers know that, and therefore place characters that should be
zero-width in the negatives, i.e. on top of or below the preceding character. Qt
3 does this.

There is a fix around this. If we used OpenType features supported by Pango or
Qt4 to give change the position of those characters and give them zero-width.
They could also be positioned with the help of anchors.
However this is not done in any monowidth font out there and would need to be
tested.          
     
     
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